| 1 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: Honkajoki is introduced quite late, but he's a well-loved side character who brings humor into the second half of the book with his ComicallySerious personality and lampooning of the war-time mentality, propaganda and the army's strict rules. He's also one of the few survivors. |
| 2 | * JerkassWoobie: Corporal Lehto, a SociopathicSoldier with LackOfEmpathy, is given a CryForTheDevil reveal [[spoiler:just before his death]] when the narrator suddenly tells [[StartOfDarkness why]] [[StreetUrchin exactly he's]] [[NeverBeHurtAgain so cold]] [[HopeIsScary and heartless.]] WordOfGod makes it worse by telling that the reason Lehto was a StreetUrchin was because his [[AbusiveParents father]] was [[TheAlcoholic a violent alcoholic]] and that Lehto [[TheRunaway run away from home]] at young age, never having anyone to look after him or to care about him. The reason he can't stand Riitaoja is because Riitaoja's weakness and fear reminds him of the scared little child he himself used to be, and never wants to be again. |
| 3 | * SignatureScene: Lehto, Määttä and Rahikainen standing in the open as a punishment for stealing army supplies, with Lehto refusing to leave his position despite Soviet air missiles bombarding their troops from every direction. |
| 4 | * TheWoobie: Private Riitaoja, who is terrified, incompetent and relentlessly bullied by Corporal Lehto. He's also kind and good willing like a child. His last words are characteristically ''"Please... please don't... I didn't mean anything bad."'' |
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